By Mulengera Reporters
At the commencement of NRM Presidential Candidate YK Museveni’s campaign rally for Wakiso district, that was venued in Nansana Municipality on Tuesday, renowned gospel singer and pastor Wilson Bugembe openly campaigned for the incumbent President’s re-election.
Many ordinarily expected him to be a supporter of Bobi Wine with whom they share a lot in common including being fellow musicians, members of Mbogo/buffalo clan and musicians who have even done collabos together before.
When it was his time to pray for the President and the Movement at the beginning of the rally (many other clerics were there & prayed too), Bugembe revealed that he was here because he had received a phone call from the President at 5am imploring him to come for the rally in his capacity as one of the prominent Nansana Municipality residents.
Before praying as requested, Bugembe requested the President, the First Lady and all the other attendees to stand up first in honor of the Good Lord who he said had gifted Uganda with such a wonderful leader. He said that the great things Museveni had done for Uganda in the last 40 years can only be done by someone who is divinely inspired.
That as a young boy from Masaka, where he was orphaned by HIV Aids, he (Bugembe) was raised by a grandmother who he said kept telling him about Uganda’s past which was synonymous with wars and endless political instability. “I grew up with that phobia but I’m here to thank God that I have grown and lived in Uganda for 40 years now and I haven’t seen nor experienced war in my entire life.”
As he spoke, the First Lady Janet Museveni, his fellow Mulokole, seemed happy and impressed as she smiled from ear to ear, with her face beaming with blessedness. Bugembe indeed paid personal tribute to her thanking God for gifting Uganda with such a decent First Lady who he commended for emotionally supporting the President and making it possible for him to do wonders for the country. He also appreciated her Godliness.
Bugembe also explained why he would eternally be personally grateful to Gen Museveni. He said he was just 19 years when he first set out to start his Worship House church ministries in Nansana. That the area local authorities had blocked the project asserting that he was too young and uneducated.
But that hurdle was overcome when the late Joyce Mpanga (a one time NRM Minister) came around and intervened; making it clear to the local authorities in Nansana that, as far as the President of the country was concerned, there was nothing wrong with a group of uneducated youths coming together to start a church to be able to worship their God.
Bugembe told the gathering and the attentively listening first couple that Mpanga quoted the Bible and made references to many great post-ascension early builders of Christianity who did great things and preached the gospel to evangelize the world even when they hadn’t gone very far with formal education.
Bugembe added that, as a man of God, he is convinced that Gen Museveni is genuinely a believer at heart because he couldn’t have allowed his daughter, Patience Rwabwogo, to become a pastor and found a Church.
“Uganda is the only country that I know in the world with a President who publicly confesses, worships and prays to the living God. Even one of his daughters is a Pastor.” Bugembe said every Ugandan should pray for Museveni’s victory come 15th January.
On the same day, at another rally, two other Bugembe’s fellow big-name pastors (namely Aloysius Bugingo and Jackson Ssenyonga) equally praised Museveni and prayed for his 15th January victory during a separate rally for Kawempe Division that was held at Kawempe Mbogo grounds.
At the Wakiso district rally in Nansana Municipality, where Bugembe spoke from, other clerics from Wakiso, including Muslim Sheikhs, were present and equally prayed for Gen YK Museveni’s victory. They also asked to be favored to at least take a group photo with the big man from Rwakitura.
Rose Sseninde, who heads mobilization at the NRM Secretariat and is also a former woman MP for Wakiso (did 20 years without break), thanked Gen Museveni for rescuing 400 acres of land in Kira Municipality’s Kasokoso (removed from National Housing & Construction Corporation), which has since been donated to hitherto tensed-up village residents each one of whom has also been given a land title to evidence the fact that the land is now theirs in perpetuity. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
